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Ep. 135 · Balak · 13 min · 2020-07-02

Part of a bigger plan

Bilam says the same sentence twice in Parshas Balak: even a house full of silver and gold, I can't go against Hashem. The first time it ends with "small or big." The second time it ends with "good or bad." Why the change? Between the two, a donkey speaks and a curse turns into a blessing. The answer touches every one of us who has pushed hard for something and watched it go the other way. Rabbi Asaf Prisman closes with a bag of fresh buns at the end of the war, and a line Moshe heard at Sinai.